New Zealand financial authorities have given Indian investigators a large amount of tax data about Indians stashing black money in New Zealand, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reports...
Online media firm BuzzFeed has raised $50m (£30m) of new funding from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which sees the US startup becoming a “preeminent media company” in the future. The round takes BuzzFeed’s total funding to $96...
Suppliers of tech giant Apple Inc have started producing new iPads, according to people familiar with the matter, as the company works to reinvigorate sales of the tablet computers after two straight quarters of declines...
The days of paying different prices for the same stock in Hong Kong and Shanghai are numbered, says Morgan Stanley...
You don’t often hear a chief executive say that analysts are too bullish on his company’s prospects. So my interest was piqued when I saw the boss of Aberdeen Asset Management (LSE: ADN), Martin Gilbert, do just that on Friday...
Almost, actually. She was granted patent no. US2292387 on this day in 1942, along with composer George Antheil, for a ‘frequency hopping communication system’, that was intended to control torpedoes without the enemy being able to discover what frequency was being used...
In a warning issued by the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic the users in the country have been warned against Bitcoin and other similar virtual currencies...
Sheldon Lavin, the chairman of the Aurora, Illinois meat producer at the center of a reported safety scandal that has dragged in McDonald’s in mainland China, Hong Kong and Japan, has arrived in Shanghai and is due to join a press conference with other senior company officials this afternoon, gov...
Wall Street plunged, after the Standard $ Poor’s 500 Index expanded a record, as Amazon.com Inc. and Visa Inc. reported earnings that missed projections and durable goods data propelled fears that corporate investment still is volatile. Amazon declined 9...
The rumor is that eventually we're going to see Google Voice merged completely into Hangouts, and that's getting even closer to becoming reality. You can now make phone calls via Hangouts directly from the Google Voice website, no Google+ necessary...
In order to attract more international investment and help reduce its dependence on oil revenue, Saudi Arabia is planning to open its $530 billion stock market to foreigners...
McDonald’s, stun by a reported food safety scandal at meat supplier OSI Group , is still only offering a limited menu in Shanghai today...
The largest Brazilian broker XP Investimentos is holding its first trading championship - Campeonato de Traders 1ª Edição. The event is arranged with the help of MetaQuotes Software Corp. XP Investimentos has recently started offering MetaTrader 5 trading platform to 80 000 of their clients...
Despite the 'challenging quarter', eBay profits rose. After the US stock market closed, shares in the company were up by more than 1.5% in trading. Although revenue grew by 13% to $4.4bn, that was less than hoped...
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years, as the software maker looks to slim down and integrate Nokia Oyj’s handset unit, people with knowledge of the company’s plans said...
This past week, Chinese State TV called the iPhone a “national security concern” because of its location tracking capabilities. The iPhone’s operating system utilizes location for several applications, including Maps and Weather...
The asset-less social network company’s market capitalization at the end of trading yesterday was just over $4 billion...
Lamassu which has revolutionized the in-person acquisition of Bitcoin via a streamlined thirty-second process earlier introduced a modular two-Bitcoin ATM system; has now brought in Rakía, a brand-spanking-new open source back-end system for its ATMs...
A few moments ago, LinkedIn expanded its presence in China by launching a beta version of our new Simplified Chinese site branded “领英”, to offer a more localized service to our members in China. We also established a joint venture with Sequoia China and CBC to explore expanding our business here...
